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                               %HISTORIC COLLUSIONS 770913

     It  is difficult for us to understand many historical
processes because it is difficult to detect the collusions
which  were  operative  in  those  processes.   Collusions
deceive not only the immediate participants, but  also the
historians who seek  to  study  the participants.   Mutual
self deception  involves  leaving few,  if any,  objective
clues regarding the deception.  Historical  research tends
to depend very heavily upon objective evidence, subjective
evidence  being  hard  to  obtain  in any meaningful  way.
Collusions pertain  very much  to subjective states states
of consciousness, even though they may relate to objective
situations.    For these reasons,  historic collusions may
pass undetected in a significant number of cases.

     When  historic  collusions do pass  undetected,   the
lessons  learned from the study of history become  flawed.
The violence occasioned by the undetected collusions  will
not  be  perceived  in relation to  the  collusions  which
occasioned the violence.   Thus,  the potential lesson  of
the historic period may be missed.

     Attempts  to  uncover evidence of historic collusions
will  need  to  seek  indirect  evidence;   e.g.,   noting
questions    not   asked,    situations   not   discussed,
opportunities  not taken,   relationships  not  perceived,
combinations not made,  etc.   Absences are not as readily
noted  as are presences.   To note collusive absences  the
historian  must be free of the collusion.   The  historian
who specializes in  a limited time/region runs the risk of
becoming  so  identified  with the  perspectives  of  that
time/region as to be unable to perceive the absences which
point to the collusions  of  the historic era.  Historical
specialization  can  thus  undermine  sensitivity  to  the
lessons of history.

     For the above reasons transcendence of specialization
with  respect  to discipline,  time,  region,   etc.   are
essential  to  gaining  meaningful  insights  through  the
consideration of historic processes.

                                                                                                                               
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